With a growing world population, increasingly demanding consumers, and a limited amount
of agricultural land, there is an urgent need to find alternatives to conventional meat …

In this review, the multifaceted issue of food security is addressed, emphasizing the need for
innovative and culturally appropriate solutions. Exploring insect livestock farming emerges …

Housefly, Musca domestica L. is a pest of public health importance and is responsible for
spreading diseases like typhoid, diarrhoea, plague etc. Indiscriminate reliance on synthetic …

Organic fertilizers-derived volatiles attract Holotrichia parallela during oviposition. However,
the mechanisms underlying the perception of oviposition cues in H. parallela remain …

The recent research interest is illustrated by the many refereed articles that appeared during
the last years. Only in 2016, there were 47 articles listed in Web of Science (consulted 15 …

Salvadora persica is commonly used chewing sticks in many parts of the world as an oral
hygiene tool. This study measured the amount of benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC) released into …

The specialization and intensification of agriculture have produced incredible gains in
productivity, quality, and availability of agricultural commodities but have resulted in the …

Background Biting midges in the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) transmit
bluetongue virus (BTV) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) to ruminants, thus …

Entomopathogenic fungi such as Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin and Metarhizium
anisopliae/brunneum (Metchnikoff)/Petch have shown promising results for managing the …

Insectivorous birds are key suppliers of crucial ecosystem services, especially important for
pest control in agricultural systems, and are globally decreasing at a fast rate. Among them …